Tag Archives: Yash Chopra

Reconciling the past and the present

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Jitendra Mathur

Marriage is a very significant event in a person’s especially a female’s life. The sacred fire (in case of Hindu marriage) is supposed to burn all that was in the past and a new beginning is supposed to take place … Continue reading →

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A real life love-triangle on screen

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Jitendra Mathur

We see several stories containing love-triangles on screen (and read in books too). However it’s a rarity that a real life love-triangle is depicted in a feature film. It happened in Bollywood in 1981 when Yash Chopra who was considered … Continue reading →

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The murderous coincidence

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Jitendra Mathur

The B.R. Films banner of Bollywood had earned a name for itself for making multi-starrer movies with high production value from the fifties to the eighties. However this banner had earned repute for making meaningful and message-rendering movies too. It … Continue reading →

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An interesting drama presented by Gulshan Nanda and Yash Chopra

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Jitendra Mathur

During the period of the sixties to the nineties, two talented persons entertained the Hindi speaking Indian audience very much – one did it through his books and the other one did it through his movies. The former was Gulshan … Continue reading →

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A tribute to Yash Chopra, the King of Romance

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Jitendra Mathur

Today is the birthday of Yash Chopra. The moviemaking maestro had left for his heavenly abode on 21.10.2012 without seeing the release of and the public response to his last directorial venture – Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012). As my … Continue reading →

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Crime World – A Spider’s Web

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Jitendra Mathur

Have you ever observed a spider weaving its web ? The peculiarity of its weaving is that once the web has been woven, the spider itself gets trapped in it and despite enormous efforts, finds it next to impossible to … Continue reading →

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The best Hindi movie on the Lost-‘n’-Found formula

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Jitendra Mathur

The lost and found formula has been a very popular formula for the masala flicks made in India. Kismat (1943) starring Ashok Kumar in a double role, was the first Bollywood movie made on this formula which held the record … Continue reading →

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Ek Raasta Hai Zindagi, Jo Tham Gaye To Kuchh Nahin

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Jitendra Mathur

Producer-director Yash Chopra is known in Bollywood as the ‘King of Romance’ because he has made certain classic romantic movies. However he had made some different movies too. One of them is Kaala Patthar (1979) which was a commercial failure … Continue reading →

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Big B seeks revenge from Sanjeev through business

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Jitendra Mathur

Revenge ! Revenge ! Revenge ! At a point in time during the seventies, almost every third Bollywood movie was being made on the theme of revenge. Sometimes the story was given the backdrop of banditry and sometimes that of … Continue reading →

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Even the title is not original

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Jitendra Mathur

Bollywood filmmakers are habitual of lifting the story ideas, plots and sometimes the whole scripts from foreign movies(and old Indian movies too). Sometimes they do not reveal the source of the story and shamelessly take its credit but sometimes they … Continue reading →

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